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Livestock and grassland webinar follow up Written by Becky Briggs Credit: Judy Dean On Monday 20 November, we held a webinar for livestock and grassland farmers. Our aim was to go through the 2023 offer for those farm types and answer your questions. You can watch a recording of the...

Written by CPM Magazine from CPM Magazine Download PDF It’s that time of year again – Christmas is fast approaching and therefore AHDB releases the latest iteration of its Recommended List for cereals and oilseeds. CPM reviews the changes including a BYDV-tolerant six-row hybrid winter barley...

Hope people can help me out, I have a small flock of sheep and I’m looking to grow them next year. To do that I will need to rent ground, how much should I be expecting to pay per acre per month? If that is even how it’s split. Cheers!

Written by Eva Osborne-Sherlock from Agriland Two new winter cereal varieties from breeder Syngenta have been added to the latest Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) Recommended Lists for 2024/25. Both are winter cereal varieties, with one being winter wheat and one being...

We’re installing underfloor in a house renovation with full insulation within the existing walls, anyone seen a wood fired ( logs) method of running underfloor? I’m thinking heat store and a small furnace to run as and when to top up the heat store ? House will have two wood burners, which I...

Have been leaving out rock salt for the cows. They’re going through it quicker than I expected is there a deficiency or is it just the novelty value .

Hello, I've read a few discussions on here about this topic, and thought I'd like to start my own. I'm not sure if this is the correct subforum or if I should've posted in the GPS subforum. Anyway, I've been interested in this technology for a while now, because I'm looking for a way to...

Written by janineadamson from CPM Magazine Two new milestone winter cereal varieties from Syngenta have been added to the latest AHDB Recommended Lists for 2024-25. SY Cheer New on the winter wheat RL is the Syngenta quality wheat, SY Cheer. Rated as a provisional UKFM (UK Flour Millers)...

The French expression "on marche sur la tête" means roughly "things are being turned on their head" or "we have got our priorities wrong". So to show their exasperation with policies that don't put local food production first and foremost French farmers are turning the road signs at the...

Currently we don’t have any apart from knowing how much solution to use. so my questions are when and why you footbath and how to apply that to a preventative protocol.

Seen a tiktok today that china is planning to build a water diversion to bring fresh water to a drought stricken area to turn it into 17 million acres of good farmland, surely this will totally destroy milk,beef etc price if they do this

Hello all, Apologies if this is a stupid question... but just wandering if there is any need to join NROSO and what the benefits of joining are? I've only recently got around to doing PA1 and 2, we've had a contractor do the spraying for the last 20 odd years. Looking at potentially doing a...

Might interest a few. Can someone post it on here?

Inspired in some way by the gatecrash of the Fendt gearbox thread, just thought I'd see what folks did. 20 years ago we managed with two 6290's and a 3075, and up to three hire tractors at peak times and contractor help for beet drilling and harvesting, hedge cutting, square baling, destoning...

Having just fished out an upturned bullock out of one of our big concrete troughs I'm thinking of changing them (also not the best to clean out). What would be the best alternative, batch sizes are between 20 & 30, no bulls. Concrete or steel? Wall mounted or on floor standing?

Asking here more from interest, as opposed to my actually messing with grown up electricity.... My Sparky is resting up after having a new knee 3 weeks ago so wont be calling around for a few weeks... :( I picked up a tidy 3ph 30kva PTO gennie recently from a closing down sale. It had...

Hello everyone, my 300 cows are currently licking their way through 30 kgs of Cheshire salt blocks a day. That seems a lot to me. And expensive. Do they really need it or are they just doing it out of boredom. When they are out grazing they never touch the salt blocks

Just looking for some advice. It’s biblically wet here now and there is water pissing out from everywhere. on one of our rented blocks of land there is a house below one of the access lanes. I’ve no clue what rights they have other than they don’t own the access lane. there is a significant...

Just watched news on bbc 2 politics ,so sheep grazing hills cause flooding.Not one mention of clean the sodding rivers out .It’s not rocket science if you build barriers the water still goes somewhere it needs a Chanel to escape .Plus farmland is our shop floor not a flood plain for the benefit...

Apart from @Gerbert has anyone on here direct experience with the R9500 milking robots? Have a friend thinking of going the robot route and is looking at Gea as well as Lely and DeLaval but there is a bit more information around on the red and blue. I know the earlier Gea MiOne was a pile of...